Improvement in fence-posts



IJ'NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN KING, OF DUNKIRK, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN FENCE-POSTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 142,795, dated September 16, 1873 application filed J une 9, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, E. KING, of Dunkirk, in the county of Chautauqua and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements on Fence-Posts, of which the following is a full and complete description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings making part of the same.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the fence. Fig. 2 is an end view.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several views.

The nature of this invention relates to a fence, and which has for its object the retention of the posts thereof in an upright position by having them secured in stays or clamps so that they can be easily and readily adjusted to position in the event the fence should become out of line laterally and vertically.

Of the construction of the fence posts and stays the following is a description in detail:

A in the drawings represents a base, to which the post stays or clamps B are secured by the bolts 0. Said stays consist of two sections arranged side by side, and between which the posts, consisting also of two vertical sections, D E, are held as shown, and clamped therein by a bolt, F. The posts referred to have their inner edges serrated, whereby the bars G are more firmly held between them, and said posts are made to clamp the sides of the bars by means of the yokes H slipped down over the posts, which posts, being tapering upward from the stay, are bound firmly against the sides of the bars, as shown in Fig. 2, by means of the yokes H. The stays or clamps B are out or shouldered out to receive the posts D E, as shown in Fig. 1.

In the event the fence should become out of line in consequence of the leaning of the posts, said posts can be straightened up by loosening the bolt F, which allows the posts to be adjusted in the stays B to an upright position, thereby bringing the fence into line; also, the stay can be adjusted in its transverse position to the fence by slackening the bolts 0, which, being fitted in slotted holes, permits the stay to be adjusted in its relation to the fence transversely, as the nature of the circumstances may require. 7

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The stay B, consisting of two sections shouldered out to receive the posts D E, as described, in combination with the base A, in the manner substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The posts 'D E, in combination withthe stay B and yokes H, in the manner substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

EDWIN KING. Witnesses:

J. H. BURRIDGE, A. F. OoRNELL. 

